The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 28, 1930, Page 3

J Gtie 30SS PRESS REPORTS _ “EGYPT IS BORDERING | ON REVOLUTION” Mass Anti-Imperialist spite Wafdist Treachery MacDonald Tries to Keep Egyptians in Sub- jeetion By Armed Force The situation in Egypt is so tense hat the London correspondent of he Daily Express has to admit that | Egypt is bordering on revolution.” | Although it was the Wafdists, he Egyptian Kuomintang, which irst called the masses to action| gainst British imperialism, the} nass anti-imperialist movement has} lready attained large proportions | nd great militancy and has gone nuch tarther than the wishes ct the Vatdists. The Wafdist’s interest in the mass inti-imperialist movement was to] ise it as a weapon for bargaining vith the British imperiaiists, But the mass movement in Egypt} S more and more gettiag pbeyord Amber Deposits Discovered in U.S.S.R. Capitalist press reports that, ac- ording to geologists who have just returned from the Soyiet Union, amber deposits have recently been Movement Grows De- the control of the Wafdists, and MacDonald, the socialist prime min- ister of British imperialism, is at- tempting to keep the Egyptian masses in subjection by armed) force. | Capitalist press reports that “Cai-! ro is filled with troops and in Alex- andria, where a large British war-/ ship lies in the bay, its guns trained! upon the city, armed British and) Egyptian police patrol the city in pairs.” In the anti-war demonstration on} August J the workers in al} parts! of the world will protest against British imperialist oppression in| Egypt as well as other imperialist exploitation and brutalities in other colonial and semi-colonial countries, | discovered on the right bank of the River Dnieper. The news is signifi- eant especially in view of the fact that amber reserves in the Baltic are on the verge of exhaustion. BOSTON RUBBER WORKERS RUSHED Must Organize Into Militant Union (Continued from Page One) trying to make the Hood Rubber workers believe that the shoe de- partment here is paid more than in Akron. But the real reason the shoe department was moved here is that the wages for this operation are less here. There has just been a 5 per cent wage cut in the shoe stitching department here, The company has also thrown a good many out of work by installing an out sole press machine in place of the former hand out sole operation, By means of the conveyor and other automatic machinery as well as the unmerciful drive of the work- ers who still have their jobs the Hood Rubber Co, now produce more with one-half the number of work- ers, Two years ago there were 9,000 working here but now there are only about 4,700. The type of worker the company favors now is the strong stocky built girl and these are forced to do the heavy work of ordinary men, There is going to be a lay-off without pay from July 25 to August ll, This is done so that some of the workers the company does not want ean be laid off by simply not hiring them again when the plant opens up. Low Wages. In general, the wages here are $18.75 per week for men and $14.00 for women, On account of the dif- ference in wages between the men and women form the same operation the men are being thrown out of their jobs and women are taking their places, In the Cambridge Rubber Com- pany the conveyor and all kinds of new machinery have been intro- duced. Wholesale lay-offs have taken place. In the last four or five months 2,000 have been laid | off so that now there are only about | 500 working, The ones still on the job have unlimited hours of labor the general rule being that every- one must finish their tickets before going home, The United States Rubber com- pany has three factories in greater Boston, The conditions here are perhaps worse than in any others, These three plants are all com- pletely closed down including American No, 1 and 2 so that about 12,000 workers are unemployed from these places alone. In the case of the Revere Shoe company (one of the three) the officials of the company told the workers that the reason for closing the plant was for the sake of “efficiency” but the real reason was to get cheaper labor in other places, The rubber workers of Boston who have had their conditions re- duced constantly should unite in the August Ist demonstration on the Boston Common at 6 p.m. The un- employed rubber workers should join the unemployed eouncil of the Trade Union Unity League with Shop Nuclei, at 8 Harrison Ave, Boston. The rubber workers who still are workmg should get behind the Communist Party nucleus in the Hood Rubber Company and organ- ize a strong local of the Rubber Worke: Industrial League, ‘Lhe ' workers who want to keep up with the developments of the labor movement in the rubber industry | released. Two hundred | was burnt to death at JERSEY WORKERS. DEFEND C.P, MEET Beat Thugs Who Hit Disabled Worker Vet | NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., July} 27.—Rich mémbers of the American Legion, the Ku Klux Klan, and hired gangsters of the bosses of | this town are nursing eracked heads today as a result of their attempt to break up an election campaign | meeting of the Communist Party here last night. The speakers, Veroniea Kovac, young textile worker and candidate for council woman in Elizabeth, N. J.; Sadie Van Ven, Larry Myr- phy, Niek Brunnel and 8i Gerson, the chairman, were defended by hundreds of workers who jammed the streets while thousands of workers waited across the street unable to get nearer. The bosses’ agents, made two un- successful attempts to stop the meeting, once after Van Veen had exposed the loeal manufacturers, the republican, democratic and socialist parties and the banker candidate for United States Senate. Failing, the agents then formed a military mob of American Legion, Klan, and fascists, called the fire department and split the ranks of the workers who packed the street between the speakers and the gang. This act was denounced by cat calls, booes, and other demonstrations by more than 38,000 workers across French St., while at least 100 Negro and white workers rushed into the gap and stopped the gang’s first attempt. Larry Murphy, representing the workers ex-service men’s league, spoke after Sadie Van Veen, C. P. speaker, and the last speaker, Nick Brunnel, a disabled world war vet- eran, was attacked by the bosses’ thugs after the fire department trucks had been called a second time to clear the street between the i workers and the bosses’ gang. | Workers beat the leaders of the gang, knocked them down, kicked them into a pulp, then proceeded to | protect the speakers and identify party members who had been at- tacked. Other meetings of the Communist Party will be held in New Brunswick. Six workers were arrested later in Jersey City and legro work- ers are on strike in New Brunswick. PITTSBURGH YOUTH 10 FIGHT LYNCH TERROR PITTSBURGH, July 27, — The headquarters of the Youth Dept., American Negro Labor Congress, temporarily at 611 Penn Ave, Room 519, issues a call to Negro and white youth organizations for a united conference against lynching and race discrimination, This con- ference is to.be held Friday eve- ning, August 15, 7:30 p. m., at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. The purpose is to organize a struggle pee lynching, all forms of race discrimination, and segre- gation existing in Pittsburgh and throughout the South, Lynchings are increasing. Within ithe last fow weeks George Hughes Sherman, +exua; and an old Negro woman of 65 was also lynched. In Atlenta, Georgia the electric chair is a legal- should write to the Hood Rubber Shop Nucleii, at 3 Harrison Ave., Boston. PROCEEDS OF PICNIC SENT DAILY WORKER CHICAGO, Ill—The proceeds, $25, from a basket picnic given by the Russian Progressive Women’s Mutual Aid Society here July 13, was sent to the Daily Worker. The ized lynching weapon which our cormrades face, The Young Workers of Pitts- burgh must DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY zs, 190: TO THE FISH COMMITTEE WAR PROVOCATEURS Statement of the Com- munist Party (Continued from Waye Une) You want to outlaw and suppress the Communist Party and all other revolutionary workers’ organiza- tions because we are showing the masses of workers how to fight for unemployment insurance, how to fight against wage-cuts and speed- jup, how to fight against the im-/| perialist wary which the capiialist class is rapidly preparing. Your work is a part and parcel of the general capitalist attack against the working elass. Workers can ap- pear before you only as class pri- soners before an enemy tribunal. You have in this job a complete united front of all enemies of the | workers and all those “leaders” of | Daily Worker:— the workers who have sold them- selves bag and baggage to the cap- italists. That agent of the Roman Pope, the ignorant and obscurantisi “Father” Walsh, you invited as your first witness to establish how the terrible “foreign bolsheviks” are undermining American institutions -—and as soon as he finished testify- ing, he ran to Rome to report to his boss, the head of a foreign state, | on the “good work” he had done in America. Yq invite Matthew Woll, whose evidence shows him to be the eentral figure of a conspiracy of white-guard ezarist emigres to em- broi] the United States in a war against the Soviet Union, and who in his position at the head of the Givie Federation and simultaneously as the real head of the American Federation of Labor, serves his cap- italist brothers-in-arms equally well, smashing strikes and delivering the working class helpless into the hands of the bosses, You invite the professional ynion-smasher and blacklister of workers, Charles G. Wood, that combination of “concili- ator of labor” and police agent, whose “work” has aroused even the protest of more forsighted capital- ists, You make clear to the whole world that the socialists are also your allies, those socialists whose} only ambition is to gain the favor of the capitalists so that they can be! anted the opportunity to rule “more efficiently” in the interests of the capitalist class. What is really the force that is “andermining American _ institu- | tions” today, that brings hundreds of thousands of workers into the street in protest against capital- ism? We have no wish to minimize the importance of the activities of the Communist Party and the rev- olutionary trade unions. But the basic factor undermining the stabil- | ity fo capitalism is that capitalism is unable to feed the masses, cap- italism is starving the workers in the midst of the greatest overpro- duction. You can never make the millions of workers see the “justice” or the “logie” of the present system in which thousands of tons of food in New York are deliberately de- stroyed every week in order to keep prices and profits high, while hun- dreds of thousands of workers are starving for want of that very food. The workers think the system res- ponsible for those things is criminal and idiotie and should be done away with. This is the force that is under- mining American (capitalist) insti- tutions, Why are you so enraged against Union of Socialist Soviet Republics? Because that country is a living example to the workers of the whole world, that not only is cap- italism a criminal ee idiotie sys- tem, but that it is uf&necessary. In the Soviet Union the workers have learned how to get along very well without capitalists, better than they ever got along before in ali history. They seized power out of the hands of the capitalists, established a workers’ government, and proceeded to rebuild the evonomic system on @ socialist basis instead of a cap- italist basis In the Soviet Union production increased thirty per cent this year; in the U. S. A. production deereased twenty per cent. In the Soviet Union unemployment de- creased 40 per cent; in the U. S. A. it increased 200 per cent. In the Soviet Union the farmers are rapidly passing over to large-scale social- ized machine farming and are em- erging from age-old poverty; in the U. S. A. the farmers are being bankrupted by the millions by the agrarian crisis. The workers of the Soviet Union showed the workers of all countries that it is possible, and they showed how it is to be done. That is why all capitalists, including those serv- ing on this investigating comniittee. fear end hate the Soviet Union Tt is not the “ronspiracic™ «7 Moscow that you fear. It is the “cry exisicree of the Soviet Power in Rusvis, an inspiration to the work- ers everywhere who suffer from ui- empioyment and exploitatioa under capitnligm, that you fear, And one of your objects, besides your fight against the demani for unempley- ment insurance, besides your fight to put across wage cuts and speed up the workers in the shops, besides make a militant your desire to outlaw the revolu- struggle against these conditions. A tionary workers’ organizations—be- permanent organization must be! sides all this, one of your objects formed to fight them. All young workers, Negro and is to help prepare war against the Soviet Union which you wish to white, must participate in this con- ' destroy because of its tremendous ference. All youth clubs are urged | to send two regular delegates, secretary, M. Kreeway, wishes to thank all those who attended, Children’s clubs are welcomed to send representatives. influence upon all workers, and be- cause you hope perhaps ‘to tem- porarily “cure” your deep crisis by the desperate expedient of war and INCREASE PHILA, | DEPT. STOR | i} | BIRLS HOURS. a Bosses Frantic At the Sagging Sales Phi | Prosperity, not be corner, or anywhere e for the big de t store of the eity, i@ measures hav been resorted te, { Unable to do much bu: |Monday, Tue | Thursday or i | nahobs have re-o on Saturday, aft keeping closed | the first Saturday of the month. | The custom in Philadelphia has been to close all the stores on Sat- jurday during the months of July and August, r stores Increase Hours. Having, by common agreement among themselves, Wanamakers, | Gimbels, Lits, Snellensburgs, Straw- bridge and Clothier, ete., dispensed | with the week-end holiday of Sat-| urday, thousands of poorly paid | salesgirls and other workers in these places are now forced to work nine | additional hours (sometimes more) for no additional compensation, in heated ovens; for these places in| {July and August are unbearably | hot. Many salesgirls and clerks be- | come ill, due to the stifling condi- | tion Of their places of employment. However, with additional mills and factories closing down daily, | they cannot afford to forsake their jobs, for no other work is available in this city with its 250,000 unem- ployed, Wednesday afternoon was the holiday granted as a “boon” to the clerks working in the chain grocery | stores during the summer months, No Half Holidays. This summer the American Stores | Co., the Atlantic and Pacific Tea | Co., the Almar Stores and others also, like the big department stores, | finding smaller sales the remainder of the week, decided to re-open on Wednesday afternoon. The workers in these stores should | protest by organizing into the Food Workers’ Industrial Union, affili- ated to the Trade Union Unity League. They should also, together with | the white-collar slaves of the depart- | ment stores, demonstrate after work | on August 1, International Red Day, by coming out en masse to the dem- onstration and show the bosses the power and might of the working class. —C. RABIN. by seizure of the Soviet territory for capitalism again. We say openly to you, as we say to the entire working class, that the workers, in order to fight against | starvation, must a the same time fight against your damned impe- rialist war. The workers must de- fend their only reliable stronghold, the workers’ fatherland, the Soviet Union. And when you foree the} workers into war in spite of their resistance, in spite of their protests, the workers will proceed stubbornly, step by step, to transform your im- perialist war against the Soviet Union into a civil war of workers against capitaiists. You raise a erv against the rev- olutionary workers, charging us with being the bearers of “violence and bloodshed.” But it is a matter of record in this committee that violence and bloodshed is the policy | of your police against the revolu-| tionary workers. Look at the dead| bodies of Ella May Wiggins, Steve! Katovis, Alfred Levi, Gonzalo Gon- | zajes, Herzel Weisenberg, killed by | the police on the streets or by your! “friends” of the American Federa- tion of Labor. Look at the mon- strous lynchings of Negro workers, occuring almdst every week in the | South, committed by the supporters | | of those very congressmen who sit | on this committee, and of which there is not even a suggestion of investigating, no the part of cap- italist congress. You are not the! enemies of “violence and bloodshed” you are the foremost practitioners | of violence and bloodshed against | the workers and Negroes, The Communists help the workers and Negro masses to organize and fight against your lynchings, against your violence and bloodshed, and! j for complete equality and self-de- termination for the Negro masses, | The Communists organize the! workers to fight against wage-cuts and against the murderous speed-up in the factories. The Communists mand that the billions of dollars being spent for! war and war preparations shall be | used for social insurance for the} workers, The Communists demand and fight for the seven-hour day and the five- day week for all workers. The Communists demand the dis- | j "VVGVVVVVVCC | young wor /6 p.m Killing Speed Up in N, Y. Slaughtehouse Hard on the Workers New York, N. Y. Editor Daily Worker:— From a Shluderberg & Kurdle slaughter house slave. This “hellhole’ employs about 500 workers of whom the majority are young workers, mustly women er 18, as usual, in these death because they are easier to exploit. e hours here are from 9 to diess, adult or young, m women. Their pay is from 25 cen to 40 cents per hour. Often the: ers are ordered at 2 or ning to slave until 5 or 1] for the profits of these 3 in the exploiters, but the installed belt system, where the speed could aceordingly be regu- lated, the accidents are common and of a very dangerous nature. But what does it mean to the bosses, | who look for more production and} naturally more profits? Speed Up Beit. Could you imagine a belt system, where a speed te 450 pigs per hour could be pushed you—at this danger- ous work with these sharp knives and other instruments? The sudden exposure ef workers to heat or cold, or vice versa, is nothing to the boss or his foreman. Why? It is only the life of a worker and there are plenty every morning at the employment office. So, why worry? Well, workers, now it is up to you. Organize under the banner of the Trade Union Unity League— join the Food Workers’ Industrial Union today, at once. Better your conditions—fight the boss and his rotten system of ex- ploiting you, Think of your kiddies at home—think of their future—put an end to these miserable conditions at once, Organize and become in- dependent, show your solidarity to the Communist Party, It is your Party, and the only one who fights for your rights. —A SLAVE OF ESCO. solution of the Fish Anti-Labor Com- mittee, These are the real “crimes” of the Communists in the eyes of all capitalists and supporters of capital- ism. These are the reasons why you sent to prison the unemployment delegation—Foster, Minor, and Raymond, This is why you can- not even depend upon your own hand-picked juries to send Commu- nists te prison, but must deny them their constitutional right, rush them before corrupt and criminal Tam-| many judges whose crimes stink to high heaven even in capitalist so- ciety, and who, because they are themselves criminals, rejoice to send Communists to prison on any pre- text, These are the reasons why six! labor organizers in Georgia (includ- ing two girls and two Negroes) find the capitalist state demanding the death sentence for the crime of or-| ganizing joint meetings of white and Negro workers, These are the reasons why seven labor organizers in Imperial Valley, Cal., are sent to prison for 42 years, for the “crime” of organizing an agricultural workers union. These are the reasons why this investigating committee is seeking for pretexts to enact new laws, new measures, to still further and more effectively suppress the working class. The workers see growing unem- ployment, wage-cuts, starvation, and Amter | ° ‘Young Workers Training in | .age imree YOUNG WORKERS! DEMONSTRATE AUGUST FIST! = | | War Camp Expose Wall St. War Mongers in Leaflets. Not only is the work dangerous, | shove all at Fort Niagara, N. Y. Daily Worker:— We are writing you about a few things happening in the camp in which we are soldiering here, but young workers in uniform in fact. We are taught the manual of ar and drilled to the utmost and abc 1 instilled with a lot of bunk ab: ican prosperity and_patri A few ago the Young munist League sent leaflet camp to yung worke them that t for war for for seizure of foreign mar One of the get one of th handed it over to the authc They became enraged with | against these class-conscious young rkers who were exposing them. Militarists Enraged. They immediately had a meeting to discuss how to get this group of young workers here, They drafted a statement to the effect that all young workers who refused te stay in camp till the 31st or who became Young Communist members would be persecuted to the full extent of Hamtramck, Mich. Daily Worker:— The farmers are waiting for some- body to organize them. Through an accidental meeting with young farm workers while playing scrub in in a farmer’s field, a passing car stopped to watch us play. I walked up and asked if they would like to join in with us to make the game more interesting. They joined us immediately and we had a very good game. After the game I spoke to them about organizing a Work- ers’ Sports Club. These young | farmers were all willing and agreed. The club was immediately formed and named the Farmers’ A. C., in which 35 young workers already joined. ganized sports club for workers’ sports purposes. arranged with young farm workers in a nearby village. After having a very interesting game between the Farmers’ A. C. and these unorgan- ized young farm workers, I spoke violent suppression as their lot in the United States under capitalism. They see in the Soviet Union a great country where unemployment is being abolished, where social in- surance protects every man, woman, and child, where wages constantly increase, where all are fed, and where the workers themselves con- trol the government. Can you wonder that they turn more and more to the Soviet Union, and to the Communist Party which has made all these achievements possible? The Communist Party declares that also in the United States the working class, learning the lessons taught by the Russian October Rev- olution and its great leader, Lenin, will also establish the government of the workers and farmers and abolish the economic system of cap- italism, “If that be treason, make the most of it.” CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY, U. S. 4 4 q q singing. VHONE BEACON 781 As Always= Spend Your Vacation at Camp Nitgedaiget q+ EIRST PROLETARIAN NITGEDAIGE) CAMP—HOTEL Hotel with hot and cold water in every room Bungalows with electric lights. Tents—to remind you the old days. Cultural Program for the Summer of 1930 The Artef Studio (Mass theatre with the Artef) Comrade Shaeffer will conduct mass Crogram—Comrades Olgin and Jerome Athletics, game: CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, N. Y. N.Y, dances, theatre, choir, lec PHONE: ESTABKOOK 1400 > By Train; From Grand Central every hour By Bont: twice daily Immediately the members | | the bosses’ law and also, if they re- fused to sign, measures would be taken. Nine young workers in a certain company street refused to! i were sent home for refus- ing to follow out the regulations of | camp. | Speed Training. | ) young injured ause st two v went In the la: hor out of r k to prepa e young we for war for one month, We send this letter to you in the name of 700 young work who ask you to intensify your w to edu- |cate us to know our class enemy more distinctly and to lead us in overthrowing the master class and building upon jts ruins a workers’ and poor farmers’ government, a Soviet Government! FROM A GROUP OF CLASS- CONSCIOUS WORKERS IN THE BOSSES’ ARMY. Make Good Start in Building Farmers Sports| Amtorg, the R League ;to them about establishing and or-| |ganizing into a farmers’ sport league. | So these other unorganized work- ers were very enthused about it and formed another club, calling them- | selves the Agricultural A. in which they have 24 members. Within a short period of about four weeks | | two clubs have been organized, con- | ting of 59 members, in this sec-| tion. We expect to have a very strong Farmers’ Sport League, af. filiated to the Labor Sports Union. Br Just to show comrades that the| young farm workers can be organ-| jized if the L. S, U. members get) on the job and organize them. | The young farm workers are chipped in to finance the newly or- | Willing to fight for better conditions | ests of greater trade as well as the young workers. So, comrades, let’s get together and/ The following Sunday a game was| build and boost the Labor Sports to encourage the sort of Union and the Farmers’ Industrial League bere in Michigan and else- | where, MITCHELL MORRIS, i Organizer of Red Wing A. C. |Phila. Needle Trades to Hold Big Outing PHILADELPHIA. — The Needle | Trades Workers Industrial Union | |here is planning a grand outing at | the W.I.R. camp for Saturday and | Sunday, August 16 and 17. This outing is not only to provide |a week-end rest and good time for the workers, but also to raise funds | \for the organization drive that the | union is conducting. | This camp will be run entirely by | | the Needle Trades Workers Indus- | |trial Union during these two days | The best foods, recreation and en- | | tertainment will be provided for all. | Special busses may be secured by | each organization. | V, LYNN, Sec’y. | Demonstrate August Ist! 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